I wanted to explore Spotify’s metadata in a way that would model the interpretive messiness of generic categories. To do so, I built a program that bounces through Spotify’s metadata to produce multiple readings of the idea of genre in relation to a particular artist. Spotify offers a fairly robust API, and there are a number of […]
The Film Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College invites applications for a visiting assistant professor of digital media studies, beginning July 1, 2016. This position is a new category called an Innovation Hire, a four year position that invites the candidate to help shape the College’s curriculum in new directions. Read full post here.
Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon invites applications for the Digital Projects Developer position at the Aubrey R. Watzek Library. Lewis & Clark is a selective liberal arts college with graduate programs in Education, Counseling Psychology, and Law. Read full post here.
From the announcement: Northeastern University Libraries are pleased to announce a new position as part of our growing research and development activities in the fields of digital humanities and digital libraries. The Library is undertaking an ambitious agenda in support of emerging digital humanities and quantitative social sciences research efforts at Northeastern. With the launch […]
From the announcement: Applicants from any humanistic discipline or interdiscipline including, but not limited to, art history, architecture, computer science, geography, history, legal studies, library science, literary studies, or philosophy and whose research and teaching interests focus on issues related to spatial humanities are eligible to apply. Applicants must hold the terminal degree in their […]
From the announcement: The Humanities Research Center hosts yearlong residential postdoctoral fellowships at Rice University for outstanding junior scholars. The program is designed to encourage interdisciplinary teaching and research, facilitate new research communities at Rice, and prepare junior scholars for future faculty positions. In 2016-17, Mellon postdocs will participate in the Rice Seminar, a yearlong research seminar designed […]
From the post: The Open Hardware Summit is the annual conference organized by the Open Source Hardware Association and the world’s first comprehensive conference on open hardware: a venue to discuss and draw attention to the rapidly growing Open Source Hardware movement. This year’s summit will be on September 19, 2015 in Philadelphia, PA. Check […]
From the announcement: Annotations are an important part of what authors do with Scalar, and indeed, an important part of the platform’s overall feature set…But until now, Scalar users creating image annotations have been required to manually set their coordinates, width and height. Not anymore! We’ve just finished integrating the open source plugin, Annotorious into […]
From the post: The theme of World Statistics Day is official statistics. Your data visualization will need to relate to international data provided by a national statistics office, such as the US Census Bureau or the UK’s Office for National Statistics, across one or more of the 5 continents. It can be on weather, agriculture, […]
From the report: It’s rare to see in-depth historical and critical review of important programs within our community, and the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Fellowships have certainly been an extremely important innovation, so I’m delighted to share the announcement of this recent study (reproduced below). The CLIR fellows have been ongoing guests […]
